Progression

Progression in Legacies has been thoroughly and thoughtfully expanded upon, without being made too complex. The existing vanilla progression path remains familiar, with a few new additions and better utilisation and pacing of existing features.

In addition to many other gameplay and progression mechanic changes, Legacies consists of a varied, mainline and vanilla-adjacent set of gear progression.

Getting Started

You've loaded into a new world. You've punched a tree, you've crafted some stone tools. What next?

In Legacies, things change quite substantially from this point forward, however there'll still be plenty of things you're familiar with - don't worry.

First, it's recommended you get your bearings of the game by checking the overhauled Advancements menu. You can access this by pausing the game and heading over to the Advancements tab.

Advancements

Here, you'll find that Advancements have been completely overhauled. Legacies removes the entire vanilla Advancement system, replacing with its own in order to help guide you through the game and ensure all advancements account for each and every mod within Legacies. There are 5 advancement tabs.

Legacies

• this is the first tab you'll unlocked, as it is accessible at the start f the game. This tab is the core progression of the game, all organised into one category that'll guide you as you progress. You'll find that it includes relevant information such as getting copper equipment, upgrading at a smithing table, acquiring Fractured Eyes, shearing sheep for wool and much more on your reimagined journey to defeat the Ender Dragon

Overworld

• this tab is unlocked by completing the "And So It Begins" advancement, for finding your first Fractured Eye. Here, there'll be advancements pertaining to the Overworld

Nether

• this tab is unlocked by completing the "We Need To Go Deeper" advancement, for entering the Nether. Here, there'll be advancements pertaining to the Nether

End

• this tab is unlocked by completing the "The End?" advancement, for entering the End. Here, there'll be advancements pertaining to the End dimension

Adventure

• this tab is unlocked by completing the "Sweet Dreams" advancement, for sleeping in a bed to pass the night. Here, there will be advancements relating to the overall game itself, rather than a specific dimension or the main story advancements.

All advancement tabs include brand-new, remixed and returning advancements. In Legacies, each advancement will grant either 20XP for a regular advancement, 100XP for a more difficult one, or 500XP for a very challenging one, so be sure to check back here frequently to level up faster!

Exploring

You may notice that you can't view your coordinates! This may seem troubling at first, however never fear - you can craft a compass to get your coordinates back, craft a clock to view the time, and takes notes of your current position with the N key.

It is highly recommended to utilise compasses, maps, clocks and the note system during your time in Legacies. To help encourage this, you can now also craft compasses using Metal Chunks found from loot or during fishing.

If you don't like Legacies' integrated approach to world exploration and locating, you can set the reducedDebugInfo gamerule to false by running /gamerule reducedDebugInfo false.

Fractured Eyes

Legacies overhauls how players reach the End dimension. Rather than crafting Eyes of Ender directly, you'll find Fractured Eyes out in the world which can be repaired into full Eyes using a Fractured Eye, Ender Pearl and Blaze Powder - think of it as a middle-ground between vanilla and the more complex and time-consuming End Remastered mod that you may have seen used in other modpacks.

Gear Progression

Core progression is overhauled, as described below. A lot of this centers around one of the mods I developed for Legacies - that being Progression Reborn

Ore Rebalance

Ores now drop 3-6 raw nuggets from stone, or 3-9 from deepslate. This sounds stingy, however it works to stretch out progression and is alleviated by cheaper recipes (such as trim duplication), and a substantially increased variety of options to chose from as you progress.

Copper

Using stone tools, you need to mine Copper in order to craft Copper tools and armor. You can also find Copper Horse Armor out in the world.

If you're afraid you can't use copper for building anymore - don't worry! You craft a new, beacon-useable copper block with copper now, and if you put that into a stonecutter, you'll receive 4 polished copper - which is what the vanilla copper blocks have been renamed to. This way, Copper works great as a balanced early-game material and essential step in progression, without making it any harder to build with late-game!

Iron

Copper Pickaxes are now necessary to mine Iron Ore. Additionally, you must attain Iron by upgrading Copper at the Smithing Table.

Additionally, Iron tools have double the durability of vanilla - that being ~500 instead of ~250.

Smithing Overhaul

The Smithing Table is far more essential in Legacies. You need to upgrade Copper to Iron, or Gold to Rose. And later game, you'll be upgrading Diamond equipment, too!

Copper --> Iron | Requires an Iron Upgrade Smithing Template + Iron Ingot

Gold --> Rose | Requires a Rose Upgrade Smithing Template + Rose Ingot

Upgrade Templates can be found in the world, or - as they're essential to game progression - can be crafted directly, albeit at a more expensive price. You can use the search function from REI in the inventory in-game to view these recipes.

The duplication recipes are simple enough - as with the trims, cobblestone surrounding an Iron Alloy (craftable netherite-scrap-like replacement with 4 iron + 4 coal), and crafting directly simply replaces the template with a block of the lower tier, in this case being copper.

Do note that an Iron Alloy is required to craft the shield. Once again, you can view these recipes in-game at your leisure.

Gold

Think of Gold as the Nether's equivalent of Copper. If you find yourself there early-game somehow, definitely try to get some, especially considering the durability is quite a bit higher than in vanilla.

Rose

Rose is the Nether's equivalent to Iron - and a very pretty, pinkish building set and trim material.

Compared to Iron, it is weaker (less protection, more toughness) and less durable - but much faster and more enchantable than Iron, and equally as capable of mining Diamonds.

Do not get in the mindset of vanilla where you "have to get" Iron! Rose is just a viable alternative, and can be really fun to enchant considering that repairs are now free and progression has slowed down!

Diamond

The vanilla classic, and an essential step in progression once mined with an Iron or Rose pickaxe. Do note that it'll take longer to get enough Diamonds for a full set versus vanilla, so don't shy away from repairing and enchanting earlier-game gear, as it's still quite effective and durable in Legacies.

Remnant, Netherite and Featherzeal

Huh? 3 Choices?

That's right - one for each and every dimension, each with their own unique benefits to ensure that all 3 options do not outclass one another.

You can get each one by upgrading Diamond at the Smithing Table. Horse Armor is available for all new materials too, often via Smithing Table upgrades.

There's Remnant for the Overworld, Netherite for the Nether and Featherzeal for the End

Forgotten Remains and Remnant Equipment

• Forgotten Remains found in the Deep Dark and Magmatic Caves
• Upgrade Template found in Ancient Cities and Infernal Dungeons
• Armor grants Explosion Knockback Resistance
• Tools have increased durability
• all equipment is immune to blast damage when dropped and in regards to durability

Ancient Debris and Netherite Equipment

• Ancient Debris found in the Nether, slightly more common in Basalt Deltas
• Upgrade Template found in Bastions
• Armor grants Burn Time Reduction
• Tools have increased damage
• all equipment is immune to fire damage when dropped and in regards to durability

Timelost Fragments and Featherzeal Equipment

• Timelost Fragments found in the outer islands of the End dimension
• Upgrade Template found in End Cities
• Armor grants Safe Fall Distance
• Tools have increased mining speed
• all equipment is unaffected by both gravity and the void when dropped

Confronting the Dragon

You've finally repaired all your Fractured Eyes and lit the portal to the End. By now, you might be in full enchanted Diamond armour... maybe even Remnant or Netherite. You're prepared, right? This will be easy, right?

Don't be so sure...